I read a great deal when I was in college. Some of that reading was even done for class. But for the most part, I read on my own, wherever my interests lead me. I did have a handful of excellent professors, to whose insights I will forever be indebted, but the university was then, at the time of my enrollment, well on the way to the state of near total desuetude we see today. Any highly educated person of my generation is almost certainly self-educated, because the institutions of higher learning we were reared in simply never provided us with the systematic tutelage in wisdom and culture that is the whole point of a university.
"...by rejecting the limits imposed by the decadent culture of the age, and returning to the accomplishments of the great souls that went before us, in order to learn a better way of being in the world."
Wonderful words Mark! It is slow work learning this better way, but oh so rewarding. It seems like stoking the imagination in our young is one of the best ways to set them on the same course that you took amongst those old awesome books.
"...by rejecting the limits imposed by the decadent culture of the age, and returning to the accomplishments of the great souls that went before us, in order to learn a better way of being in the world."
Wonderful words Mark! It is slow work learning this better way, but oh so rewarding. It seems like stoking the imagination in our young is one of the best ways to set them on the same course that you took amongst those old awesome books.
Thanks Patrick